"No suggestions" More from this Member | Report Response

"none" More from this Member | Report Response

"Everything went great - I really liked the multiple opportunities given for learning more about the school and interacting with students." More from this Member | Report Response

"No suggestions. Everything was organized very well, thank you!" More from this Member | Report Response

"Keep up the great work." More from this Member | Report Response

"I didn't have enough money on my meal ticket to buy my salad at the Friday lunch. I had to borrow money!" More from this Member | Report Response

"Three hours of Powerpoint presentations is too much, especially when we all got up early to travel to Southwestern or participate in clinical rounds!" More from this Member | Report Response

"Between the 2 days, there was a lot of sitting and a lot of repeated information. I would have prefe" More from this Member | Report Response

"No suggestions - they're all really friendly and open" More from this Member | Report Response

"some of the student run parts on the 2nd day were totally useless. they could have cut those out eas" More from this Member | Report Response

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Interviewer 1: How did COVID affect your education? 2: Tell me about yourself." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"when did you grow up?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is a mistake you have made and what did you do" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think is wrong with healthcare today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why [my undergrad]? Tell me about [my clinical volunteer experience]. Tell me about [an experience I wrote about on my optional essay]." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Talk to me more about your research (they were VERY interested in my research, I have been working full time in a stem cell lab for the past two years)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Open file interviewer (clinical faculty) seemed to have been impressed with my application even before (s)he met me. (S)he asked me about each of my main research projects, my plans in medicine and what I would do if I didn't get into med school (but then (s)he assured me I would get in :)). (S)he was extremely nice and tried to assure me I was doing well." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What kind of medical problems will we face on Mars?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why UT Southwestern?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is the last book you've read?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do besides school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do your parents do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you see yourself involved with research as a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do in your free time?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you have any questions? One interviewer asked me this question three times, and I had only prepared two questions to ask." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you didn't go into medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"My PhD asked me to describe all of my research activities in detail. The MD also asked me to describe my current research." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why medicine? What about activity X and Y? Anything you regret? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"name three weaknesses" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What setting do you see yourself practicing in, as a doctor? Why? / What is a strength of yours? / What would your friends say is a strength of yours? (yes, asked again) / What would your friends say is a weakness of yours? / If you had anything you could do over, what would it be? / Who is an inspiration to you? / If you could choose any one person, living or dead, to have dinner with, who would it be? / What would you do if you saw a classmate cheat? / What would you do if, as a practicing physician, you saw a colleague abusing drugs? / What would you do if that colleague were siphoning drugs off -- not for personal abuse but for the benefit of a clinic's patients (i.e., a community clinic)? / Do you have any questions for me? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your thoughts regarding the size of the uninsured population in this country, and specifically in Texas?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"how has the day gone so far? (followed by tell me about your clinical experience)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Pick a current ethical dilemma in healthcare/research and tell me your thoughts on it (I chose stem cell research). Somehow this led into a discussion on gene therapy." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How have the doctors you shadowed helped you pursue a medical career?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you couldn't be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"greatest strengths" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had to choose 3 different types of people to advise George Bush on Stem Cell Research, who would you choose?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what do you envision medical school being like" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What words describe you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"why medicine" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"In what setting do you think you will practice medicine in 10 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"So tell me at what age did you become aware you wanted to be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you hobbies?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what kind of research did you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"where will you be in ten years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you going to do if you don't get into medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Ethics in medicine" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are 3 things you're proud of and 3 things you'd change about yourself?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why did you decide to apply to medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were to bring a case to the president for funding stem cell research who would you bring." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you see yourself doing in medicine in 10 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a doctor " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you want out of a medical school? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What strength would you bring to our medical school class?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How did you become interested in medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had two hours to spend doing something unrelated to medicine, what would you do? If you had two weeks to do something . . . ?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your greatest strength?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"(The dreadedly annoying) Tell me about yourself." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your strengths and weaknesses?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What kind of movies do you like to watch?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What was your experience working with children with [disease I studied] like? (Asked by 1st interviewer)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think it will be easy for you to transition back to school from a research setting?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why [enter undergraduate college]?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Strengths/Weaknesses, Leader or Follower or both. Why become a doctor. What do I do in my spare time. Role models. What do I do to stay healthy." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Discuss a current medical issue facing America today. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your strengths/weaknesses?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Pick any current ethical problem and discuss it, or what you would do to change it." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do with the YMCA (my job)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why did you choose your major? What did you mean by ____ on your secondary?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you feel your volunteer experience has helped you gain insight into becoming a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you have any questions?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think medical school will be like? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The usual stuff. Why medicine? Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Int#1:Greatest strength/weakness - with examples for each Int#2:So you've had biochemistry, whats the last reaction of the krebs cycle? Also, from glucose, how many net ATP do you get? Why isn't it 38?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Strengths and weaknesses" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What area of medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your interests? X 2 or 3" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in ten years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why go into medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What three traits are important for a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to go into medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What made you choose your undergraduate university?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about someone else's research in your lab. Tell me about your research. How would you explain your research to a non-scientist?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself ten years from now?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your background (I have an interesting one.)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"nothing noteworthy" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Same old stuff." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"application details" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Typical questions" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"open-ended: tell me about yourself." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Besides the question mentioned above, they were really straight forward." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what's the latest non-science book you read" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Most questions were based on my application." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what can i tell you about our school that would make you choose us over the others?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you regret your fruitless service experiences?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me how you feel about Roe v. Wade." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you going to do over the summer?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"See above" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"know why you'd want to come to TX and Dallas esp. if you are out of stater like me" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"My low BS score on MCAT" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why Southwestern?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How have you handled working with overbearing physicians in the past?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"do you think you will have trouble coming back to school after being out for a couple of years" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me how you prepared for the MCAT." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why did you decide to go to school out of state?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your community service experience." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your research experience." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your research." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Very basic, general questions about my application" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What's your favorite movie?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"where did you grow up?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe yourself in one word." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is one thing happening in the medical field today that you want to discuss about?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think are some of the difficulties associated with using iPS cells?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I was asked about my work experience in this company I interned for." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The Mars medical problems." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had to bring two people back to life to eat with, who would you choose?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do people like you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you couldn't be any kind of health professional, what would you be?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why did you pick your undergrad institution?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"So you're going to talk to someone in Washington about funding stem cell research. What three people would you bring with you, and why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you most proud of that you want me to know & least proud of that you don't want me to know?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The closed-file interviewer asked me what I was glad she hadn't seen in my file." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you react to cheating?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you had a terminal 90y/o patient on a respirator who you believed should be taken off the respirator and allowed to die, but the family was very resistant? How hard would you push?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you balance quality of care with access to care?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"all of them" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None were particularly interesting... I'm still waiting for that g-damn "what flavor of ice cream would you be and why?" question. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what is your definition/view of holistic medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had to create a panel of three different types of people to advise President Bush on stem cell research who would you choose?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do I think about the TX immigration laws?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How have the doctors you shadowed helped you pursue a medical career?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Have you seen Sicko?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How does one clone a gene? (as part of a conversation, don't go look it up unless it's relevent to you)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why not pursue an MD/PhD?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could invite three people to dinner who would they be?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"greatest problem in healthcare" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None, really. All were very typical questions." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had to choose three DIFFERENT TYPES of people to advise George Bush on Stem Cell Research, who would you choose?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"if you had to put together a panel to advise president bush on stem cell research, who would you put on it" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Should all smart people be doctors?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"how would you fix the healthcare system? Not interesting, but none were really..." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if all the medical and health related options you have didn't exist?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you ever get more pleasure out of receiving than giving?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you can bring two people back to life to have dinner with, who would it be?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think cultural differences play a significant role in creating barriers to the health care system?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could pick 3 people to advise president Bush on the issue of stem cell research, who would it be and why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Ethical issues in medicine (open ended, it wasn't situation based)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do I like to do in my spare time?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Have you ever been misjudged?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What three single words describe you the best?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What about you did you leave out on your application because you did not want us to know about it...I was laughing in my head when i heard that question. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were to present a case for stem cell research to the president, what three groups of people would you take with you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"When I present your case to the committee what would you like them to know about you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How does your knowledge of the Hispanic population prepare you to better treat them?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing really just more of a converstaion , with questions about my personal statement and where i was applying to. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None Really" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you see as your future medical career when you're done with your education (job environment, etc.)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I'm not convinced you know what you are getting yourself into, convince me why you want to go to medical school? (As if all the work and money invested over the past 3 years was just for fun!?!?!)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"They were all pretty typical." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do as a family member in a situation like the Schiavo case? And as a provider to the patient?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What one thing in your life thus far has led you toward medicine and helped you to become who you are today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What kind of movies do you like to watch?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Will it be a hard transition having been out of college for so long before entering medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"You are storlling on the beach and you find a lamp...a genie pops out and grants you 2 wishes...what are they?? What 3 people would you like to have dinner with??" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Would I be able to complete medical school after graduating from college five years ago." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Same generic medical school questions." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me how to maintain a 4.0" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are the highlights of your university career?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what would you do if not medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing comes to mind." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your feelings on yoga?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why aren't you working in architecture right now, it's lucrative (that was my major and I took a year off to work prior to med school)." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I have no idea why but we started talking about bicycling and urban revolution. ?? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Pretty standard questions...nothing too unique or interesting." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I guess the standard "So why an MD and a PhD?" question. Nothing else that was crazy though." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Not much" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"why southwestern? why an md?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What made you decide to open up and share about your experience with an eating disorder in your essay?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What made you decide to open up so much in your essay?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Questions about my research and how it could possibly be applied to medicine. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could eat dinner with three people, living or dead, who would they be and why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could invite two dead people to dinner, who would they be? I answered Mark Twain as one of them but this lady was from England and acted like she didn't know who Mark Twain is." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could cure one disease, what would it be? (he then didn't count heart disease or cancer heh)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What did you think of growing up in Alaska?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"very standard" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"When did you decide on medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Let me see the size of your hands (we were talking about surgery). But the conversation itself was pretty interesting as a whole." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think you will find with a career in medicine that you didn't expect?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What myths have you heard about us that I can debunk for you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What three traits are important for a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What was it like working for your congressman, and how do you relate discussing issues with constituents to dealing with patients as a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Did I like the ski class that I had taken? This was really positive, because it meant the interviewer looked over everything before interviewing me." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why are manhole covers round?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you describe your research to a non-scientist?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Standard" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None were out of the ordinary--all the questions were very basic ones about my background." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are the ethical implications of your research?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None really, it was all very typical" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing very interesting." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"tell me about your interview experiences at _____ school and at _____ school and at ____ school - the whole interview was about other interviews" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"When do you feel the most alive?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you like to cook?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How is being a nontraditional student an asset in medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had to assemble a four-member committee to advise the president on abortion legislation, who would you appoint and why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Teach me something." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If there was one concept from India you would bring here to the US, what would it be? And what would you give them from the US?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"if medicine was out of the question, what career would you go into" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could invite anyone, living or once lived, to a dinner party, who would you invite?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Questions about my research experience" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you want to be doing in 20 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"none." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How are your children's personalities different?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your favorite movie? ( No wrong answer) Not a hard question of course, but then asked... Why? So if you blurt out "Tommy Boy" or something like that and then you are asked why...Thankfully I had a decent response." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing leaps out as interesting... One interviewer asked me about an essay for which I had won an award." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tie... 1. What are the characteristics of an effective leader? 2. If I was in Huntsville, TX (my hometown) on a Sunday, what would you suggest I do? 3. Why aren't you as introverted as other chemists?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"nothing really - all standard based on your app; like having conversations" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"mostly standard questions" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"An ethical question about whether I would give a cancer patient marijuana as an anti-emetic if he/she requested it." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"nothing out of the ordinary or particularly interesting" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you like me to tell the admissions committee in regards to your lower-than-average grades and MCAT scores?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The interviews were very conversational. I can't think of any specific questions that didn't relate to my application." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you say to people who wanted to follow in your footsteps?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are the challenges your generation of physicians will face? Interviewer made me propose a number of broad categories of future challenges, and then asked me to list and analyze several specific challenges within those categories." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think about Roe v. Wade?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"pretty standard stuff, one question about having a family while in med school (I'm single so I told him it wouldn't be a problem)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too